We recently bemoaned the possible shelving of Minority Report writer Scott Frank's super dark Planet of the Apes reboot, to be called Caesar. But Fox may have changed its mind about this Ape origins story.

Fox is close to nailing down its new entry in the Planet of the Apes franchise: Called Caesar, it's a flick about the super-intelligent monkey who is an ancestor of the new rulers of Earth. Scott Frank will be directing and writing, which is a good sign: He wrote the amazing reincarnation thriller Dead Again, as well…